Super Falcons Arrive Kansas City For Clash With USA | National

9-time African champions, Tremendous Falcons of Nigeria are in the US of America on a two-match tour with the US Girls’s Nationwide Crew, with the primary of the 2 matches happening on the Kids’s Mercy Park in Kansas Metropolis, Kansas on Saturday, third September.

Each groups, who’ve certified for subsequent yr’s FIFA Girls’s World Cup finals in Australia and New Zealand, could have a go at one another’s jugular as soon as extra on the Audi Area in Washington, D. C. on Tuesday, sixth September.

Coach Randy Waldrum has picked 4 members of Nigeria’s U20 ladies that reached the quarter finals on the just-concluded FIFA U20 Girls’s World Cup in Costa Rica, specifically defenders Oluwatosin Demehin and Rofiat Imuran, and midfielders Esther Onyenezide and Deborah Abiodun.

Residence-based professionals Christy Ohiaeriaku, Akudo Ogbonna and Reward Monday are additionally within the delegation.

First-choice goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie, defender Osinachi Ohale, midfielder Toni Payne and forwards Rasheedat Ajibade and Uchenna Kanu will present the backbone for an fascinating Nigeria choice.

The USWNT is essentially the most profitable group within the FIFA Girls’s World Cup, having gained half (4) of all eight championships competed for therefore far. The Stars & Stripes have been champions of the very first version in China in 1991, after which gained on dwelling soil in 1999, in Canada in 2015 and in France three years in the past. The group has additionally gained 4 Olympic ladies’s soccer gold medals and eight CONCACAF titles.

The Tremendous Falcons have gained the Girls Africa Cup of Nations 9 instances, performed in each version of the FIFA Girls’s World Cup and in addition performed on the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympic ladies’s soccer event. They continue to be essentially the most profitable ladies’s group on the African continent.

The Kids’s Mercy Park is dwelling to Kansas Metropolis within the US Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League and Sporting Kansas Metropolis within the Main League Soccer, whereas Audi Area is utilized by Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League facet Washington Spirit and Main League Soccer group, D. C. United.

The match in Kansas Metropolis will see Vlatko Andonovski, appointed Coach of USWNT on the finish of 2019, return to his dwelling space for the second time. It’s the sixth time that the USWNT will likely be enjoying on the Kids’s Mercy Park however it’s their first time on the Audi Area, although they’ve performed 10 instances beforehand in Washington – all on the RFK Stadium.

Andonovski says he’s excited to ship out his ladies towards the Tremendous Falcons: “First, I’m simply excited to play two matches towards Nigeria. They’ve some very gifted gamers who will current quite a lot of completely different issues for us to resolve on each side of the ball.”

SUPER FALCONS FOR FRIENDLIES WITH USA:

Goalkeepers: Chiamaka Nnadozie (Paris FC, France); Christy Ohiaeriaku (Edo Queens)

Defenders: Nicole Payne (West Virginia College, USA); Glory Ogbonna (ALG Spor, Turkey); Osinachi Ohale (Deportivo Alaves, Spain); Michelle Alozie (Houston Sprint, USA); Akudo Ogbonna (Edo Queens); Oluwatosin Demehin (Rivers Angels)

Midfielders: Jennifer Echegini (Florida State College, USA); Christy Ucheibe (SL Benfica, Portugal); Toni Payne (Sevilla FC, Spain); Amanda Mbadi Uju (Atasehir Belediyespor, Turkey); Deborah Abiodun (Rivers Angels)

Forwards: Rasheedat Ajibade (Atletico Madrid, Spain); Rofiat Imuran (Rivers Angels); Uchenna Kanu (Tigres Femenil, Mexico); Vivian Ikechukwu (WFC Gintra, Lithuania); Ifeoma Onumonu (NY/NJ Gotham FC, USA); Reward Monday (Bayelsa Queens); Esther Onyenezide (FC Robo Queens)

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